Zhang's two kidneys were transplanted to another man and a woman, both in their 30s, who had urinaemia and had been on the hospital's waiting list for kidney transplants for many years.
Zhang's corneas were transplanted to a 5-month-old child from Zhuhai and a 65-year-old man from Shenzhen.
"Zhang's donation has helped save three lives and helped another two people recover their sight," Huang told media after the operations at the No 3 Hospital Affiliated to Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou on Wednesday.
Huang said he paid homage the organ donor Zhang before starting the transplant operation.
Huang is a well-known expert in liver transplants.
China has become the second-largest country in terms of organ transplants, Huang said.
Since the country introduced a posthumous organ donation system in March 2010, China has completed organ transplant surgeries for 465 organ donors in 38 designated hospitals across the nation from March 2, 2010, to September 30.
The system was jointly implemented by the Red Cross Society of China and the Ministry of Health. It is aimed at encouraging more people to donate their organs after death to help people in need.
A total of 1,279 organs have been donated for life-saving purposes in the past two and a half years, Huang said. Of the organ donors, more than 120 came from Guangdong.
China's reliance on organ transplants from condemned prisoners will end within two years as the donation system is proving successful, Huang said.
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